Poll: Hillary Clinton won the second debate  —  Hillary Clinton won the second debate and leads Donald Trump by five points in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that also shows voters perceive the Republican Party bitterly divided four weeks before Election Day.

DEAR DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL  —  THE SCOOP VLADIMIR PUTIN SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL WIKILEAKS  —  I am Sidney Blumenthal.  At least, that is what Vladimir Putin—and, somehow, Donald Trump—seem to believe.  And that should raise concerns not only about Moscow's attempts …

Member Of Trump's Evangelical Council Calls Him ‘Lecherous And Worthless’  —  A megachurch pastor who sits on Donald Trump's evangelical council denounced the Republican presidential candidate as “lecherous and worthless” over a leaked 2005 video in which Trump boasted about grabbing women.

The fact-checkers keep destroying fact-checking  —  When Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton should apologize for “the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted, and that you acid washed,” did you think she had put emails into a washing machine with bleach or an acid?  —  NBC News' fact-checkers apparently thought …

Mitch McConnell Refuses To Talk Trump At Kentucky Event  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday told the audience at an event held by the Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce in Kentucky that he would not discuss Donald Trump.  —  “If any of you are here are thinking …

Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial …

Donald Trump is the GOP's chemotherapy  —  “Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.”  —  Janis Joplin  —  What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night?  His dignity?  Please.  His campaign's theme?  His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally …

America will take the giant leap to Mars  —  We do what's possible before anyone else  — He says next step is to reach for Mars: learn to build new habitats that can sustain astronauts on long missions  —  Barack Obama is President of the United States.

Billy Bush suspended from ‘Today’ show  —  Billy Bush brazenly bragged to NBC staff about the vulgar Donald Trump tape while covering the Olympics in Rio, multiple sources tell Page Six.  —  Proving the infamous Ryan Lochte interview wasn't Bush's only Rio recklessness, the shamed “Today” …

'I'm the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse'  —  Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton's cautious — and surprisingly risky — campaign.  —  There can be days in this presidential campaign, if not weeks or months or maybe the entire thing, where you find yourself completely lost in dueling or blurry realities.

More Evidence Reveals Obama Influenced Clinton's FBI Investigation  —  Obama called Sanders a ‘shiny new object’ while praising Clinton for overcoming adversity  —  In an interview with Fox News this past April, President Obama asserted that he did not put pressure on the FBI's criminal investigation …

A Great Fight of Our Times  —  Think, for a moment, about the stories that your family likes to tell about itself.  They are probably miniature versions of the American story, with progress as the central theme.  —  Maybe your great-grandparents arrived here as striving immigrants, and you now talk about how proud they would be.

We still haven't recovered from the Great Recession  —  A lot of people are worried about the growing ranks of jobless young men.  George Will says America is suffering a “quiet catastrophe” in which men simply no longer want jobs.  —  Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago …